Tuesday, February 9, 2016

Kenworth W900 is almost here

The iconic Kenworth W900 truck model should be added to the American Truck Simulator line-up in a few short days; it will be a part of the first small game update that we are finishing now.

This is actually the very first truck we have started creating for the game over two years ago, it has been in an almost-finished state for a long time. We were sure that this classic vehicle would be received very positively by our fans. However, unbeknown to us, it did not turn out to be the best choice for the first vehicle to approach Kenworth with during initial licensing discussions. Truck manufacturers tend to be very careful about their image, and Kenworth, as the pioneer in aerodynamics in cabin design with their T680, had a rather different idea of the ideal truck to have in our game at the moment of release. So it was back to work for us to finish the other truck first before we could hope for the licensing deal to be successfully signed.

Meanwhile, we also owe you news concerning the state of Steampunk DLC. We are gifting it now to loyal Steam followers of American Truck Simulator as promised. Our "robot" code has been processing the gifts for a few days already actually, we are however throttled by some technical issues. So far, we have managed to add the DLC to the Steam library of 53,000 players, there is still some 110,000 more DLCs to issue currently. Please have patience with us, the DLC content will automatically appear in your game shortly. As the execution on our side was not as swift as we had hoped, we are not yet limiting your chances to earn the DLC for free. Anybody following the game on Steam until and as of today will still qualify to receive it. You don't have to worry also if your game was a store pre-order and the box is yet to arrive; so long as you follow the game in time, the DLC will be added to it even if you activate the game a week or two from now.

Great work! That is an awesome truck, I can hardly wait. I have a request for the game: I would love for you guys to add another form of weather to the game that is snow, It would be cool to actually have to drive through Ice and Snow. I love this game it is totally awesome.

Inferial, you say curse ATS ? Look, us americans have been waiting for a American trucking game by SCS since 2007!! YES, 2007...All we had so far was just the crap-game Rig N Roll in 2010. And, like Adrian said, the game will get better over time. If you compare ATS's current base map to ETS 2 base map in size, you cant compare. Not to mention, we will be getting a 3rd new state FOR FREE. Look, since 2007 SCS had made us drive boxes on wheels. So all we had until Feb 2nd 2016 was 18 wheels of steel and Rig N Roll. Who gives a crap about ETS 2 1.23 right now? You have a entirely new game. New styled trucks, new continent, new prefabs, new roads. And you only care for ETS 2 update. How about, mod the game and play Promods if you dont like ATS. Us Americans have been waiting for a very long time. We dont have time for this bullcrap.

Ouh yeah! I loved to drive the wannabe W900 back in hauling, alongside the wannabe Freightliner Argosy, and i love seeing the W900 get into ATS :) Any plans regarding Freightliner Trucks like the Argosy or the Coronado?

Eeeeeaaah! Thx SCS you are a best company! ATS is an amazing game with beautiful views, great trucks and interesting gameplay. Now it`s better then ETS, and you keep working... It will be best simulator at all when you have been finished.Sry my little Eng, 1 just want to say you Thanks!

hell yeah!! I'm very excited. but I still wonder Why these 2 were shown in the ALPHA Test video but very TRUCKING NICE BITCHAI!: Video Alpha ATS TEST: Included these 2 trucks. just watch!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSUKlmqBJYQ

Nope, shitty modders are the ones who make everything 3D and don't use textures. Speaking as an 18 wheels of steel modder of 8 years, 90% of the mods for ATS look like garbage to me so far because the "authors" suck at optimizing their models.

SCS, this is the first comment I've made against you. I bought ATS in the first 10 minutes, and LOVE IT! However, do you not thank your fans, the ATM machine that keeps you going?? When ETS 2 came out (and yes, I was around LONG before ETS 2), you wrote a blog post on the next day, thanking us, because you got 15,000 sales. Now, nothing. You got over 150,000 sales, and where's the thank you?!? Nowhere... I'm really disappointed. Seems your heads grew from the $$$ and fame of ETS 2, pity...

It just shows the learning curve SCS are undertaking when trying to obtain a licence for use in their games. Brand identity is obviously very important to truck manufacturers and I'm glad lessons have been learned so in future Pavel and the team at SCS will know how best to approach other brands to allow their vehicles into the games we love. Paccar Group have obviously seen sense. Others will surely follow in time. For now, I've become quite attached to my Peterbilt 579 having driven over 24,000 miles in it already but I'm certainly looking forward to the W900 arriving soon. Great news! Thanks SCS.

SCS you need to add more tuning options for the trucks... What the hell happened there, u have been working on this game for more then 2 years, and the options are less then for ETS2.

On another note: WHAT is going on with ETS2, you have not released any news for some time now. I open ETS2 and all i can see is ATS news. Your statement was that you will continue to develope this two games side by side...WHAT has happened to the tyre DLC for ETS2 ???

I appreciate everything scs does to make a trucking simulator nobody else is doing it and someone thinks they can do better then quit complaining and do it I thank with time trucking simulators will get even better keep doing what your doing scs thank you

hey SCS, the game is great and don't bother the haters. I still look forward to buy the other states until I have the whole North America to drive on, cross country, long haul, wide load and some cool trucks as well.Keep it up ! Just improve the aliasing graphic wise.

I've been looking forward to that truck, I kind of wish I hadn't bought a 579 now. But it's not like I can't trade it in. :)

While I'm thankful for the news, I'm curious to know if engine sounds will be a part of that update. It's pretty obvious to me that they're not finished. The RPM levels are too close to each other so they sound rather unpleasant to me as I go through the gears. That's my big complaint regarding driving anyway. Not too happy with intersections being put on Interstate highways (the only roads we DON'T have them on), but that's another topic for another day.

SCS is by far the most honest and direct game developer around. I am absolutely baffled by how honest and up front they are about everything and it is greatly appreciated.Well done, SCS. You done good, kid.

I like the Peterbilt 389, however the Kenworth W900 jion in the game first.It's OK SCS. we can wait~ But I do like the old fasioned interior of these classic trucks! Really nice.(Now I'm sick of that two aerodynamic trucks in game which make me not want to open the game at all, ,unless you bring me a Western Star 5700XE,you know that SPECAIL truck. waiting for these classic trucks~)

This is such wonderful news. I agree with the trucking companies, though. The image needs to be their latest and greatest, and to be honest I absolutely love the aerodynamic looks. I doubt I drive this beast very much, but I will DEFINITELY have her assigned to some hired drivers and drive her myself for the occasional nastaulgia day :)

ATS and ETS-2 is good games. Lithuanian love this games, and waiting at scs software new DLC with Baltic Country's. I know, that ETS-2,and ATS games developers not alwais belives, and take lithuanian desire's, but this could lead to the world trade game extensions. I hope that the SCS software will expand the ETS2 and ATS to the maximum. We believe SCS Software is able to expand both games so that they cover the entire continent. ATS the whole and full North American, and ETS-2 the whole, and full European Continents, with all Countrys and butifoul their City's

Even though I had hoped my frist Truck would be the Iconic W900 I have gotten used to the T680 and quite enjoy it. Well one day when i can afford a garage just for my own personal trucks I will put it inthere

Sweeet but I have a question.........are more engines going to be added?We have Paccar and CumminsBut what about CAT, DETROIT DIESEL, MERCEDES?Straight pipe option?Can't be American without big stacks lol just sayin

this is the truck I've been looking forward to seeing on the simulator 😁 I just hope that it has better engine sounds than the two starter trucks as the sounds are worse than terrible. SCS please improve the sounds as the BADLY require it. right now, I play ATS simply for the beautifully done map, the truck sounds bore me and the indicator sound that was also on UKTS and GTS and also still being used in ETS2, it getting beyond a joke.

Okay forget this truck for this week , since its not comming this week.Official statement from some dev on the steam forums.So remember for next time ! , Few short days : scs meaning 2 weeksIn other words SOON.Allright dont come here making promises and make people happy with air

If you are going to try to be slick with your words, at least PRETEND you know how to spell and write correctly. Literally that entire post is so screwed up that all it did was make you look like a complete idiot. Also, your aggression towards my post proves I hit the nail dead on. :) Thank you for resting my case.

Few means 2/4days but saturday/ sunday is not a work day (workdays mo-fri) so maybe today (friday) or Monday... I Hope they adding it this weekend / today . But patience will be rewarded!! People calm down. W'll get m

yeah. i guess. but SCS software says: about a robot which is sending the codes to us, but I dont know (they are not clear) if the robot sending codes to all 100 thousend of people 24/7 or they just a period of a day like 9am till 5pm.. i dont know.

Troll? Ever took a look at your Added DLCs on ATS in your librairy after the update? When you click on ATS in your librairy, there is a DLC with a check mark below the play button called ''Steampunk Paint Jobs''. If you dont see that, you did not get the update. But seriously, a troll?

yeah... give it an hour... but thats false hope, but I'm sure if we dont recieve it this weekend.. (Im sure not this weekend) than its monday.. but its Weird to say as an announce something to come/recieve it in a few days.. few means 2 days. so they its better to say u will recieve it in 5 days. "If we recieved it on monday" but Maybe there is something going on suddenly that they cant release it this this week. DOnt know... but I feel the ennoyed feeling, only what we can do is waiting

Could we possibly see more powerful engines in the future? As far as i know Americans are known for their powerful trucks, and to be fair that feeling is all gone once i pick up 10+ tonn trailers with my 550hp engine.. I turn onto a highway, 2 minutes later i reach 90 kmt and then my GPS tells me to take next exit :/

i wish scs never done this, a few short days??? why not just say next week, or it will be in them game as soon as we can, they need to re-word things better, getting peoples hopes up for nothing... looks like i will have to play/buy another game this weekend.

hey SCS, when you expand to Washington State can you make our trailer license plate like the one shown in the video as being a Washington State Resident since birth i see them all the time on the highway, here is a video with an example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhU8eV8ZRlc and also the Red Oregon commercial plate as i see that also lol, the trucks have a regular washington state plate however the trailer has a yellow strip on the bottom that reads combination in red lettering

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